Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He prefers to wear pastel clothing when he does not wear armor. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Hadarai hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: 5'2" and muscular, this western man wears silk and lounges about seductively. His golden hair is cut short. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born in the west. He found a children's book about a Elf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 20000 sp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who is dressed in earthy colors with a red and brown handkerchief worn on his left side, he is not a threatening figure. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Ivellios liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Animal Trainer; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Nature, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 230 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His blonde hair is braided into rings. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Born in the east to a Fortune-teller, Aramil learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aramil grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Aramil. After months of barely getting by, Aramil managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His hair is auburn and curly. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when goblins swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Theriatis alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.